Software Is A Great Combination Between Artistry

A Top-quartile Teacher Will Increase The Performance Of Their Class - Based On Test Scores - By Over 10 Percent In A Single Year. ... That Means That If The Entire U.s., For Two Years, Had Top-quartile Teachers, The Entire Difference Between Us And Asia Would Go Away.

The Dreams Of The Past - Whether It Was Public Tv Being Rolled Into The Classroom To Teach Spanish, Or The Film Projectors Or The Videotapes Or The Computer-aided Instruction Drill Systems - The Hopes Have Been Dashed In Terms Of Technology Having Some Big Impact. The Foundation, I Think Can Play A Unique Role There. Now, Our Money Is More To The Teacher-effectiveness Thing, And Technology Is No. 2, But I'll Probably Spend More Money On The Technology Things.

In Terms Of Doing Things I Take A Fairly Scientific Approach To Why Things Happen And How They Happen. I Don't Know If There's A God Or Not, But I Think Religious Principles Are Quite Valid.

Philanthropy, Although It's Tiny Compared To The Government, It's 2% Of The Us Economy, Which Is The Largest Percentage, Other Than The Middle East.

If African Farmers Can Use Improved Seeds And Better Practices To Grow More Crops And Get Them To Market, Then Millions Of Families Can Earn Themselves A Better Living And A Better Life.